{"id":947,"date":"2010-09-29T21:51:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T02:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2014-11-18T22:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T03:43:53","slug":"the-healing-power-of-the-violin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healingmusicenterprises.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-healing-power-of-the-violin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Healing Power of the Violin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wayne Holfeldt lifts spirits and calms nerves at innovative UNM Arts-in-Medicine program<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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By Tiffany Maleshefski<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hometown: <\/strong>Albuquerque, New Mexico
\nInstrument: <\/strong>Violinist
\nOccupation: <\/strong>String teacher; retired account executive for Southern California Edison; ex-US Marine Corps interview manager
\nAffiliation: <\/strong>University of New Mexico, Arts-in-Medicine program
\nQuote: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019ve played all across the United States. I\u2019ve played Easter Passion Plays in Nashville and Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em> in the High Desert. No matter where I go, there\u2019s always a high demand not only for string teachers, but for string players.\u201d<\/p>\n

They call him the \u201cFiddler on the Roof.\u201d That\u2019s partly because violinist Wayne Holfeldt starts every set with the famous show tune, but also because he can be found high atop the third floor of the University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center in Albuquerque. At least once a week, Holfeldt can be spotted by the center\u2019s snack bar playing a familiar fiddle tune or a bit of jazz. He prefers to play popular music, show tunes, and movie stuff\u2014the kind of tunes people recognize immediately.<\/p>\n

Holfeldt is one of several musicians who participate in the university\u2019s nationally recognized Arts-in-Medicine program, one of the largest outreach programs of its kind in the United States. Throughout the year, the ten-year-old program hosts scores of what it calls \u201ccreative encounters\u201d with staff, patients, and families.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s something that\u2019s truly needed, and you get a lot of satisfaction seeing people enjoying your playing,\u201d Holfeldt says.<\/p>\n

You can find him playing during the lunch hour, serenading patients, technicians, doctors, and OR nurses fresh from the operating room and clad in scrubs.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes they\u2019ll be out there dancing on the floor,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

No need to stay quiet in this hospital\u2019s halls. Holfeldt recalls the time a doctor came out of his office to personally thank the violinist for the music drifting through the nuclear-medicine wing, which helped calm the patients who had appointments that day. Many times, the notes that spring from his violin reach the children\u2019s wing. The parents, their interest piqued by the sound down the hall, journey to the snack bar to get a closer listen. \u201cI glance to the right and there\u2019s a line of [baby] strollers in the room watching me play,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Drawing that young audience is one of the real joys of the progran, he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy main goal is to expose young children to the violin,\u201d he says. \u201cThe earlier you expose children to stringed instruments, the more string programs are going to grow and nurture and the more children will be interested in learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about the University of New Mexico\u2019s Arts-in-Medicine, visit artsinmedicine.unm.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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